In this week's Odder News, the Moscow Zoo tries a new marketing tactic; a consumer protection agency gives its condom recommendations; and high winds call for desperate measures.

A Russian woman makes 2 million euros through illicit means.

A public opinion survey reveals that Russians are averse to a woman holding Putin's office.

On the occasion of the great writer’s 160th birthday, we offer up one of his lesser-known classics, newly translated.

Russia has everything, including Amazonians.

The wealthiest woman on the African continent is, apparently, a Russian citizen.

170 years ago this week, January 15, 1850, the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya was born.

Among “the Terrible’s” unfortunate wives, Maria Temryukovna, his second, is an interesting case.

An excerpt from the new translation of a novel by Karolina Pavlova (1807-1893), translated by Barbara Heldt.

March 8 struggles with the duality of being the day of women and the day of “womanness.”

In the summer of 1922, Ruth Epperson Kennell, a children’s librarian, left New York City for the far reaches of Siberia. She travelled with her husband Frank and 132 other ‘pioneers' who were eager to establishing industrial and agricultural communes to aid the ‘new Russia’.

What’s more surprising, fake feminists or fish with bad teeth?